Posts by Craig West
Posts by Craig West
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GEN Y & Entrepreneurship
Some recent research on Gen Y (people currently between five and 25 years old) highlights the fact that our ability to engage and manage generation...
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Increasing the Ebit on Sale
Most businesses today are sold on a simple basis of EBIT multiples (EBIT being the technical term meaning earnings before interest and tax – the...
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Employee equity plans in small, medium enterprises
As business owners seek better ways to attract , retain and motivate key employees to lock in performance and build wealth, we find they often...
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Moor Right for Acquisitions
A recent national online survey of small and medium sized enterprises conducted by KPMG, provides a picture of how businesses are responding to the changed...
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Family Business – Or Not?
According to some recent research by AXA and Monash University, family business and succession are not always a healthy mix – in Victoria alone...
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Succession Planning – The Current Position
There is much literature on succession planning, with most of it focusing on the mechanics of the “transaction” and looking at various aspects of...
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Barriers To Exiting a Business
In the recently published BRW ANZ Private Business Research conducted in late 2008 an amazing lack of realism from many small business owners is...
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Employee incentives & equity – A Solution to funding?
A specific area of concern and interest is the utilisation of employee share plans and other employee incentives and equity plans to assist in funding...
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Boutique Businesses
Boutique businesses are quite a different prospect to scale – they are not focused on volume – but on the opposite – typical words...
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The Value Spectrum
All businesses sit somewhere on this spectrum and maximising the value of your business depends upon your ability to recognise where it currently sits and...